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[-] peto@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago

I think it's a different bomb at that point.

Yeah, yeah Ship of Theseus but I think when you melt down, mix with other things and then recast you've it's a new thing. That or all they succeeded in doing was making several haunted a-bombs and that strikes me as a bad move.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I suppose in that sense it was unfortunate they didn't let it get to the rule of 3.

Ideally when the experimenter is explaining how that core has already killed twice before.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 62 points 5 months ago

People seem to forget that the demon core killed far less people than it was intended to.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

You can get paired vibrating bracelets, press the button on one and the other vibrates, I think they are supposed to be for long distance couples as a 'thinking of you' type thing but they would probably work here.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I always feel sad with these kinds of stories. The machine is clearly just trying to be helpful but it doesn't understand a thing about what it is doing or why we might find what it is saying repugnant. It's like watching a dog not understanding that yes, we like our slippers, but we don't want our neighbours swastika themed ones on our doorstep.

And then of course we get to the content and I am reminded that we live in hell and the sadness is replaced by the familiar horror as the machine pretends to empathise with its fellow Amazon workers and helps them pick out the ideal thing to piss in without missing their drop targets.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Eh... Close, but they are also a concentration social power (and fundamentally deferred violence), and rights only really exist in the context of social power. You can try and establish your own personal sovereignty but you can be sure that any state that cares to will test that. Sometimes the most you can do is accept that it is able to imprison you or go down fighting, and if you are committed to pacifism the latter is a harder option.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 54 points 7 months ago

Their god commanded them to have lots of kids. The idea crops up again and again in fundamentalist abrahamic movements. This world is bad but that doesn't matter as it is just the doorstep before paradise.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

"Hydrogen powered" generally means burning hydrogen in oxygen to make water: 2(HH) + OO -> 2(HHO). To run a car on water as you say is a lot like trying to make a fire out of ash, rather than wood. You can't burn the ash because it has already been burned.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I found https://www.hackingchinese.com/ to be quite useful.

I have also found learning about the radicals and general construction of characters to be useful as well, being able to look at them as a collection of things rather than just a jumble of lines. A good student's dictionary is helpful here. It's a big chunk of change but once you have it you have it.

Duolingo is OK, but you need to be disciplined with it, and it doesn't help much with pronunciation or production.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

That wrist angle looks uncomfortable as all hell.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

So you are at about an A1 and want to get up to around a B1? I don't like saying impossible but a month is not long at all. If you can already read it you might do better, just focus on the reading and writing skills, get some sample papers if you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages?wprov=sfla1

[-] peto@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

You are probably going to want a tutor that offers an intensive class, that can be done in a month, but you are still going to be looking at 50+ hours.

Do you know what level the exam is expecting?

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